Shakti Mills gang-rape: 3 get death, another gets life
A Mumbai sessions court on Friday sentenced the three repeat offenders in the two Shakti Mills gang-rape cases to death under the provision of section 376E under the Indian Penal Code that carries the maximum of death penalty.
It is the first time in the country that rape convicts have been sentenced to death under this section that was brought in by the new Criminal Law (Amendment) Act in 2013 after the brutal Delhi gang-rape case.
The fourth convict Siraj Rehman Khan, 24, who was involved in the photojournalist gang-rape case was sentenced to imprisonment for the rest of his natural life.
The court had on Thursday found Vijay Jadhav, 19, Mohammad Qasim Shaikh, 21, and Mohammad Salim Ansari, 28 guilty in the photojournalist gang-rape case under an amended section of the IPC, which entails death penalty, for committing repeated offence.
Principal sessions judge Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi, while passing the judgment on Friday, said if this not the case where death sentence prescribed by law is not valid, which is.
She said the gang-rape was pre-planned and not a spontaneous act of lust while rejecting the defence argument that the survivor is alive and accused did not rob or hurt her.
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